there will be nightingales.

Mapping things out during patrol...

Featuring:

Dustin “No—dude the portal is supposed to be over there” Henderson

Will “Just because I can draw does not mean I’m good at cartography, Dustin” Byers

Mike “is definitely paying attention” Wheeler

Lucas “SHIT—did you guys hear that???” Sinclair

the birthday party he deserved ❤️‍🩹 happy birthday, Will Byers

In my mind it takes place during their college spring break!

just saw a post making the connection that human Anthony Crowley is clearly meant to be angel Crowley, not demon Crowley, but instead of coming to the conclusion that this is stripping Crowley of his identity they said that this is a good thing because Crowley never should have fallen in the first place? I am so baffled. Crowley is the character he is because of the fall and the millennia he spent interacting with the world as a demon. He likes driving recklessly, being a low grade menace to humans, terrorizing his plants, engaging in sloth, and using his position to thwart heaven in their malicious plans. Crowley isnt a good person (just a little bit, deep down, etc.) despite the things that happened to him, but because of the them. Angel Crowley ("the angel you knew is not me") is not the character we know and love. Do you even like this character if you want him to be completely different???

idk i get the vibe from people who liked the finale that they have beliefs about trauma and identity that rub me the wrong way. Trauma sucks, obviously, but learning to cope and exist with it fundamentally changes you from the person you would be without it, and that isnt inherently a bad thing! Supernaturally removing the trauma from a person is not "saving" them, it's essentially destroying the person they worked hard to become. People with trauma can and deserve to be happy as the people they are today, not as some hypothetical version of a person they might be if nothing went wrong for them.